WA couple's fight leads to pot arrest

A Washington State couple was arrested Monday morning after officers responded to a motel for a reported domestic violence call and reportedly found garbage bags of pot, the Fort Bragg Police Department reported.

According to the FBPD, a caller at the Super 8 Motel on South Main Street reported at 6:20 a.m. Feb. 25 hearing a man and woman fighting in what was believed to be an incident of domestic violence.

When officers arrived, they reportedly found a woman yelling at a man and when they contacted one of the subjects near their motel room, the officers reportedly noticed "the smell marijuana coming from inside the room."

After obtaining a search warrant, officers then reportedly found more than 16 pounds of dried marijuana, and evidence that the drug was going to be packaged and sold.

The suspects, Alexander M. Kattau, 27, and Nicole P. Rudrud, 32, both of Port Angeles, Wash., were then arrested on suspicion of possessing marijuana for sale and booked into Mendocino County Jail.